Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Pereira, Luísa ^a,b   Silva, Nuno M ^a   Franco Duarte, Ricardo ^a   Fernandes, Veránica ^a,c   Pereira, Joana B ^a,c   Costa, Marta D ^a,c   Martins, Haidé ^a,d   Soares, Pedro ^a,c   Behar, Doron M ^e   Richards, Martin B ^c   MacAulay, Vincent ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE;

CANARY ISLANDS; ITALY; NORTH AFRICA; SARDINIA; SPAIN;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EUROPE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NEGRO; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78650287512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-390     Document Type: Article

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